[Mimedefang] configure in wrong part of RPM spec file

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Sep 10 20:20:01 EDT 2003


--On Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:34 AM -0400 David T Hollis
<dhollis at davehollis.com> wrote:

> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
>>> Meanwhile, most of the SRPM's I've encountered come from Red Hat Rawhide
>>> (which I rebuild to match the package to the earlier Red Hat release), and
>>> I believe most if not all put configure in the %prep section.
>>>    
>>> 
> That's not what I have seen with Rawhide packages.  Typically the %prep
> section just handles getting the sources extracted and patched.  The %build
> section handles ./configure and make.  Any autoconf/automake/aclocal
> operations are also performed in %build.

Doh, caffiene must have run out, and I typed the exact opposite of what I
meant. Thanks for catching it.



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